Article: Off the Beaten Mountain Path;In California's Trinity Alps, Solo Hiking Is Still the Norm

I am standing in a grove of Jeffrey pines interspersed with granite boulders. A black-tailed deer is nibbling at a willow branch beside a nearby creek. Strapping on my backpack, I gaze eagerly at the trail head, which I have reached after a four-hour drive from San Francisco. I am looking forward to the high point of the hike, from which I expect to see the western slopes of Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak, the southernmost peaks in the Cascade Range.

My hike is taking me into California's Trinity Alps, a half-million acres of wilderness and additional public land located inside the triangle formed by the Northern California towns of Redding, Yreka and Eureka (and west of those ...

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